Huntsville gazette., 1887-10-29
SOUTHERN : Gl.EANINGSs

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Information is wanted of the where.
abouts Of Arch Lester, of Henderson Coun.
ty, KY, about twenty two years old, fv=
feet seven inches tall, and weighs i5c
pounds.
Two Of the heaviest bales of cotton ever
bafeG on a plantation press We're received
at Vicksburg from Nittayuma, Miss, a
few days ago, one weighing 925 and the
other 8SS pounds.
In a sparsely settled section Of BALLARD
County, KY, Mrs. Stephens, widow, was
murdered and her house robbed Of 81, 900 a
few days since. The aged woman strug.
gled hard for life, but the heartless brutes
showed her no quarter.
A great.number of cattle are dying from
an unknown disease on Broad river, South
Carolina. They are taken with a quiver-
ing in every muscle and no remedy that
b as been given does them any good.
Ali the cattle that have died are those re-
Gently moved from the uplauds to the bot
toms. There is mule in the community
affected in the same way, but it seems to
get no relief.
Annie Wright, Lula Wilson and Bette
Black are under arrest at Nashville, Tenn,
for the murder of j. L. Howard, late of
| Obion County They placed his body
under railroad trestle to convey the idea
that he had fallen and been accidentally
killed.
J. G. Durick, contractor, who was
building a large bridge at DeKiven, Ey.,
was engaged a few days ago in hosting
| heavy rock when the rope to the derrick
broke and Durick was thrown nearly sixty
feet in the air, and fell with fearful, force
to the ground, breaking his shoulder and
co1lar-b bone, aud injuring him so severely
that lie died in few hours.
Much excitement has been occasioned
in Mobile, Ala, by the persistent hazing
| and social ostracism Of children OF He
brew parentage at the Barton Academy,
the principal public school Of the city.
Three Of the offending pupils have been
held to answer by the mayor.
Henry Borcher, until recently resident
of st. Louis, and an employe Of the Brush
Light and Power Company of New Or
leans, was killed in the latter city few
days ago by an electric current while en-
gagged in repairing the line.
The game laws of Virginia have been so
thoroughly respected during recent years
that game of all kinds is now found in the
noun famous districts.
1t seems that the colored Masons in
Louisiana, who were described as a band
of murderers, have been maligned. Two
of their alleged victims are known to be
alive.
Dan Diamond shot and instantly killed
VIM Crane, about five miles above
the mouth Of the st. Francis river
ia Arkansas a few days ago. Dia-
mond and Crane quarreled abont tbs pos
session Of a fishing net, which was the
property Of Diamond.
The steamer Regulator, $50 tons, run
ming between New York and Wilmington,
N. c., was burned at her wharf in the lat
ter place few days ago. Her cargo Of
cotton, naval stores and lumber, valued at
$4,000, was entirely destroyed. The YES
sci also is total loss. Both vessel and
cargo were insured.
Ben Bray, colored, who shot ana killed
Joe Frizze, colored, in Nashville, Tenn,
several months ago, was convicted in the
Criminal Court and sentenced to twenty
years. Imprisonment. After committing
the crime Bray fed to East st. Louis,
H., where he was captured and taken
back.
Samuel w. Ramsey, from Indiana, was
arrested at Owensboro, KY, few days
ago, for abducting Viola Tola, the daugh-
ter of Herman lola, of CannelltOn, ind.
The girls is thirteen years old, and her
parents are highly respectable. When
Ramsey was arrested she seemed over.
lived to get back to her father, and de-
clared that Ramsey had used more of
force than persuasion to get her away.
He was fined twenty dollars for vagrancy
and jailed in default, to await a requisi-
| tion.
| A severe storm visited New Orleans
Few nights ago, with rainfall of tsFo
| inches, and the wind reached velocity Of
| forty-eight miles per hour. Trees, fences
and buildings were blown down. Re
ports from plantations along Morgans
railroad, from Morgan City 30 New Or
leans, show that almost all the sugar-cane
was blown fat. The rear por ton Of the
! city was inundated to a cons derable ex-
| tent.
! Extensive arrangements are being ma lie
! in Nashville, Tenn, for the reception and
/ entertainment Of four hundred delegates
4 to the annual session Of tho National
| Women's Christian Temperance Union,
| which begins November 1G, and continues
/ six days. All the railroads in the South
/ srn Traffic Association have granted
! rate of one and one-third fare for the
/ round trip. Many of the most noted
/ women in the country viii be in attend
ance, and questions of great importance
/ will be discussed.
Mrs. Stone, wife of Levy Stone, PROM
/ inent farmer of Pickens County, S. G.,
4 lost her life recently by singular ac-
| cident. A needle with which she had
| been sewing was carelessly sticking in
/ the front part of her dress when she went
out into the yard to feed her pigs. Whilst
| leaning over the pen the needle came IN
contract with board and was sud denly
iriven into Mrs. Stones breast just above
the heart, producing a wound from the
effects Of which she died in two hours.
Tampa's (Fla.) mayer sends out call
1 for assistance. The laboring class, white
and black, are in great need. There is nc
! business at all in the stricken city, and
/ the quarantine prevents any work being
! done in that city. Aid is earnestly solicited.
/ DR.. WyIly, president of the Florida Health
| Protective Association, indcrses the call
! and says that great distress prevails there
| already.
The body Of kid" De Jarnatt, one of
4 the party Of three who were drowned at
Memphis recently during the display Of
fireworks at the presidential reception,
I was discovered On a sand bar, two miles